My view is that anyone who uses the NASA designators instead of the correct names (as assigned by the Russians) for Progress and Soyuz spacecraft is showing their total ignorance of the Russian spacecraft, and therefore their views and comments should be totally ignored.
Phillip Clark
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From: Zeger Nuyens
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2012 1:40 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] Progress M-15M
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:14:54 -0400 Anatoly Zak <agzak at optonline.net> wrote:
> Progress M-15M entered orbit, following a seemingly flawless launch. As
> usual, NASA TV "confused" it with one of the previous Soviet Progress
> missions.
Although there's still no excuse for NASA (or anyone) referring to
Progress M-15M as Progress 47, there is no previous spacecraft with this
designation. The original Progress series (Progress Classic? :-) ended with
Progress 42.
One more time, I will continue to use the official Russian denomination until my dying day!
It is and always will be Progress M-15M.
Zeger Nuyens
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